French isn't to difficult to understand if you start talking German to them. that's friendly advice from a Flamish guy who celebrate the battle for the gulden spurs every year ( gulden spurs 11th Juli 1302)

Excuse me, where is X and Y?EU: Sorry, I can't help you/ It's down the road, then right/ IDK, use google mapsJapan: someone takes their time to escort you to your destination, without wanting anything in return.

I wasn't looking for videos about visiting Japan, and I don't think I'll ever need to because I am going to die from your basashi! and sakuranbo! It was equal parts startling and hilarious, and I'm still laughing about it ten minutes after the fact. Thank you for this funny and informative video.

having a 11 hour layover stay in Tokyo at HND in about a week on my way back to south east asia and i want to do as much as i can instead of hanging in the airport all that time. this was super informative especially about the public transportation. landing 3pm planning on jumping off the plane having a 7 hour night in Tokyo then jumping back on the plane :) great vid very helpful

I've been around a few countries and always, the locals love it if you've at least made some effort to learn a few words of the language. You don't have to be a walking Berlitz, just make a bit of a damned effort.

As a kid growing up in Hawaii (heavily Japanese population and culture) I used to have this sort of thing I'd imagine, like I'd wake up one day .... in Japan. I'd have been traded somehow, and have to be a kid in a Japanese family, with Japanese parents, their kid having been traded to my family I guess, and I'd not know a word of Japanese .... I used to scare myself thinking of this.

I fully gagged when he said french people werent really nice with him for not being able to speak french, i have been living here for over a year an thats basically my daily life, even now that i can communicate they still slightly pissed because its not perfect.

I was in hiroshima and had to use the restroom really badly... the staff at the cafe we were at realized what was happening as i went to the restroom and the mens room was being deep cleaned.... they ushered me into the womens restroom.... completely embarrassed when i came back out and there were 2 women waiting and the staff worker keeping watch. I bought a really good meal after that and thanked them profusely.

2:26 Frankly, on the road sign it's only words like "Shrine" and "Power Plant" are English words, others are Romanized Japanese and I think it is just like Japanese that most of the westerner cannot understand. You may find the same situation in China, it looks like there are English words on the road sign, but in fact that's Pinyin.

Out of all the videos i have seen that you have done, i have come away with the understanding that...1. I Need to visit Japan2. Japanese people and their culture are superior to the rest of the world3. Japanese women are hot! Thank you !

not difficult at all, question solved wthout even watching the video. You have to visit japan once to expereince it. Random japanese people started talking to me asking where im from or sth else. they tried to help only because i just looked for a second where te next train stops. Even theycant speak english they try to and they are happy if you try to speak their language even you make many mistakes as they know how hard it is to speak another language. its an experience i never made anywhere else.

I lived in Japan for two years and did not learn a word. It was great. I hate talking to people. Seriously I had the best time there. Japanese people like to practice English so whenever I tried to speak Japanese they knew English better than my Japanese.

If you lived in Japan, you should know going shopping and eating at restaurants should be no problem without any Japanese. However, it’s clearly difficult if you don’t know Japanese and have to go to the koban, ward office, tax office etc. so yeah it is impossible without Japanese. I don’t know how I would survive if it wasn’t for my ex lol. All the letters they send you is in Japanese.

I spent two weeks in Japan a few years ago and knew pretty much no Japanese. We traveled to many major cities while staying and had very little difficulty with our time there. At all the train stations, there was signage in English in addition to Japanese, and I don't know if its a requirement, but all the staff at the train stations seemed to know fluent English. Also, many other signage outside of train stations are in English and use the Arabic numeral system when listing things such as prices. At restaurants, there are many pictures for dishes as well as fake model food displays to show you what the dish looks like. Most of the locals we interacted with knew at least some English, and those that didn't were always very helpful in as much of a capacity as they could be.

So while it would be ideal to know Japanese, it definitely is not necessary to travel there, especially if you're going to major tourist spots like Tokyo or Kyoto.

Dam after studying the language for quite a while, I still felt like I had a long way to go, but just listening to the bare minimum basic Japanese taught in this video I might have lost most if not all of my brain cells. I honestly felt retarded.

When I went to Japan, I got a bad sunburn and needed aloe vera. My japanese at the time was not good and I could only make simple, short sentences. I tried asking the clerk for aloe vera アロエベラー, but felt helpless when he couldn't understand. A nice woman came up to me and said that she would take me there. She took me to a medicine shop which was out of her way and even stayed to help me find it. Things like that are so uncommon in America, because people are busy and don't have time. I was very happy that day.

For traveling on the trains, I find that google maps is actually very helpful. When you type where you want to go in google maps it will tell you how much it will cost in yen to get there. I have also found it to be very accurate, it's been a life saver for me. Getting a Suica or Pasmo card is definitely a must though! (ALSO I love your videos, they have helped me a lot in my recent move to Japan

Remember also if you're having trouble reading our Kanji you can use Google translate app, it has real time translation camera. 😊Edit: Also app CityMapper will help travel much nicer than Google.Please just ask us! :)